The Universal Dictionary

It is intended for a full-text search and it significantly expands the possibilities of working with lexical items from the Russian glossary of LingvoUniversal. Contains usage examples, synonyms, and antonyms.

pawn

[pɔːn]брит. / амер.

сущ.

шахм.пешка

пешка, орудие в чьих-л. руках

сущ.

заклад, залог

заложник

гл.

закладывать, отдавать в залог

гарантировать, ручаться

сущ.; уст.

павлин

сущ.; уст.

галерея, крытая колоннада

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pawn

[pɔːn]

n; шахм.

пешка(тж; перен.)

n

заклад

v

закладывать

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Examples from texts

"I've brought something to pawn here," and he drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.

In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything.

he writes his move on his scoresheet and declares to the arbiter his intention to make this move, which shall result in the last 50 moves having been made by each player without the movement of any pawn and without any capture, or